Posted by: Andrea Manfrè
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation.
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
The whole is in the small things: the child is small but contains the man, the mind is restricted and it creates thought, the eye is but a dot but it embraces spaces.
Pick the day. Enjoy it, to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come. The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Think of the millions of people who live together even if they don't like it, they hate their job but are afraid of losing it, it's normal that they should have the face they have.
Where is the present? It's on hanging billiards and it goes held firm with the hand in order to stop it otherwise you notice with delay what you have lost, and the implication that is still disowned.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.